Israel holds large-scale emergency exercises in Tel Aviv

Israeli firefighters take part in large-scale emergency drills in Tel Aviv Weizmann Center towers on August 30, 2012.

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Israel has held a massive emergency exercise in the central Tel Aviv as part of the regime’s drills which simulate rocket attacks in case of a possible war with Iran.
The drills started on Thursday morning at Tel Aviv’s Weizmann Center, which contains a shopping mall, medical clinics, restaurants and office buildings.
The three-building complex is located near Israel's second-largest hospital, Sourasky Medical Center, and close to the Defense Ministry's Kirya headquarters, the Ayalon Highway and a train station.
The operation practiced a large-scale evacuation after a simulated fire breakout on the 11th floor of a central office building, and involved all emergency services in Tel Aviv.
The exercise was timed to coincide with the morning rush hour to fully simulate a possible attack at a busy time of the day.
Elsewhere, overnight emergency exercises simulated a rocket strike on the beachfront promenade in Bat Yam, just south of Tel Aviv, with the wounded then transferred to a stadium in nearby Holon for treatment.
Israel has recently carried out a number of war games and drills as Tel Aviv steps up its war rhetoric against Iran under the pretext of preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear arms.
Iran has refuted the allegations about its nuclear energy program and maintains that as a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and a committed member of the International Atomic Energy Agency, it has every right to develop and acquire nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.
Iranian military officials have also promised a crushing response to any act of aggression against the Islamic Republic.
MRS/SS